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Ookla speed tests showed Starlink median download speeds improved 38% to 90.55 Mbps in the first quarter of 2022 year-on-year.
The expansion of Starlink into areas without wireless connectivity comes weeks after the Federal Communications Commission denied nearly $900,000,000 in subsidies to Starlink for rural broadband expansion.
Brendan Carr, an FCC commissioner, stated on 2022-08-24 that the FCC denied nearly $900,000,000 in rural broadband subsidies to Starlink without legal justification.
The Air Force signed a $1,900,000 contract to provide Starlink services to military bases.
SpaceX provided some Starlink dishes to Ukraine's government for free and was paid by the US government to deliver thousands more.
SpaceX has a separate FCC authorization to launch 7,500 V-band satellites for Starlink’s first generation.
SpaceX has launched more than 3,100 satellites for Starlink’s current generation using Falcon 9, usually in batches of around 50 per mission.
SpaceX plans to launch some second-generation Starlink satellites with Falcon 9 to accelerate the constellation’s deployment and improve Starlink services.
SpaceX will use a mix of Falcon 9 and Starship rockets to launch the 30,000 satellites in its proposed second-generation Starlink broadband constellation.
Starlink currently has 2,287 satellites in orbit and is planned to grow to 12,000 and potentially 42,000 satellites.
The contract identifies Starlink as the only LEO constellation communications company providing this commercial satellite solution with services to Europe and Africa.
The US Air Force Special Operations Command awarded SpaceX a $1,900,000 contract to trial Starlink Internet services in Europe and Africa for one year.
SpaceX is committed to deploying all 29,988 proposed second-generation Starlink satellites at altitudes between 340 and 614 km across nine inclined orbits.
The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command awarded SpaceX a $1,900,000 one-year contract to evaluate Starlink internet services in Europe and Africa.
SpaceX has launched more than 2,700 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit to improve service and coverage.
Starlink’s consumer service requires users to purchase a $600 dish to receive broadband service.
Ookla reported that median download speeds for SpaceX’s Starlink improved 38% to 90.55 Mbps in the first quarter of 2022 compared with the corresponding quarter in 2021.
RDOF conditions for Starlink included providing 100 megabits per second download speeds and 20 megabits per second upload speeds.
The presence of the Group 3 Starlink satellites exacerbated the 2022-08-06 conjunction squall with the Cosmos 1408 debris.
A third batch of Group 3 Starlink satellites is scheduled to launch on 2022-08-12.